watch r t n e toys. the stories that shape the week here on our team a deadly disaster hits the u.s. just days before the presidential vote and we look at how the election is now defined not just by the two main candidates but the devastation of superstorm sandy as well. in the absence of democracy greece is governed by corrupt her two characters. the greek whistleblower his message has been battered by thousands of journalists in the country claiming the government is muting those exposing wrongdoings. russia's claims washington is dre healing peace efforts in syria by urging the opposition to continue fighting as rose phase accusations of war crimes after a brutal video comes to light. and not in my backyard

plans to build the one the mega mosque has protesters worried that these lawmakers are of developing it is aiming to radicalize local muslims. a.t.m. in the russian capital you're watching r t with me welcome to the program just as the u.s. was about to be sucked up into a political board acts in the last week before the presidential vote the country was hit by a devastating and deadly superstorm tearing into the eastern seaboard sandy also tore away the candidates plans with the rallies canceled and early voting disrupted argues maria board takes a look at the role the swirling disaster is splayed in the final rush of the presidential race. she was a storm the size. and it might be

a game changer for america's upcoming u.s. presidential election early voting was suspended as hurricane sandy ripped through the u.s. east coast monday. and a half million homes and businesses to lose power president barack obama canceled campaign appearances to handle the superstorm the election will take care of itself next week right now our number one priority is to make sure that we are saving lives national polls show the commander in chief garnered excellent marks for his response. i think that was the president. he's my man. voted for obama. a possibility and the biggest praise of all came from a staunch romney supporter the cooperation from the president i did states has been outstanding the president has been all over this he deserves great credit if you think right now i give a damn about presidential politics that you don't know me looking to also score

political points republican candidate mitt romney rebranded his victory rally in ohio into a relief for say anything. to stop their political campaigning. so much use of state before. being very close thank you but while the candidates attempt to feature sandy in their midwest from her victims are too busy piecing their lives back together below thirty ninth street has become known as the dark side of manhattan hundreds of thousands have been surviving without electricity heat and hot water for more than five days on staten island polling stations are no longer standing voting locations are being moved to parts of new jersey massachusetts connecticut and pennsylvania that are still dark and damaged by the storm some experts say the last minute scrambling will undoubtedly leave countless americans disenfranchised from democracy on november sixth it's destroying the

legitimacy of the election potentially on the east coast early voting is being wiped out in these cities and states the voting of the elderly on the election day the voting of the poor on election day the voting of new yorkers on election day is likely to be diminished through no fault of their own and that will affect the outcome of the election and election now defined by two men and sandy marina port ny r.t. new york now the damage done by superstorm sandy. about fifty billion dollars but whichever presidential candidate proves to be successful they won't be dipping into the massive military budget to help pay for it and despite the u.s. to fan spending continuing to be the world's biggest growing numbers of observers

now say this money will be better spent elsewhere. there's no more important issue in america today than how much we're spending on our military and our military industrial complex that's where most of us tax dollars go most americans know that this is wasteful spending here it creates a few jobs but there's so many more jobs that would be created if that spending that governmental spending was done on a whole bunch of other things like publicly utilities like a whole other range of areas so it's really destroying our economy in a lot of ways besides creating a lot on this is sort of violence around the world it seems like the legacy of us being involved in all these onus of wars over these last several years is going to be the same legacy that happened to a lot of other. empires that just they just spent themselves out of existence that happened to the soviet union and their own this is very wars that happened to you know it happened to the british you know it happened to a lot of other societies that these military industrial complex takes over nobody stops it and before you know it you know your whole country is like an overwhelming

debt. all here on our table of course continue coverage of the u.s. elections looking at their race from different perspectives plus our team is hosting a very special event this coming monday as we're exclusively bringing you the final round of the sarah party candidates debate live from our washington studios will two parties keep us politics a one way street. or will new voices disrupt the power power that. was if america changes. to its election let's go right monday november fifth on our team. a great whistleblower arrested after publishing a list of a country tax evaders was acquitted on thursday but his case was only the beginning of a string of scandals involving the country's journalists with another one for manning in custody after threatening to reveal a bailout deal fraud as he's paid all over reports manning greeks. i think the

government is covering its wrongdoing spy attacking those who try to make it public . is the greek government using bully boy tactics to cover up its own failings that's the question that took thousands of journalists to the streets of athens accounts a list for their outrage was the arrest of journalist cost us vaxevanis after he revealed the names of more than two thousand wealthy and highly influential greeks accused of stashing illicit gains in swiss bank accounts. we published a list that other countries had in the possession and our government was aware of every two years but did nothing in the absence of democracy reece is governed by corrupt cartoon characters who deceive the public claiming they are handling tax evasion vaxevanis was set free of the judges decided that he did not have

a case to answer however his story is sent a shockwave through an already fractious society we are in a period of political muscle and political crisis social crisis is obvious we have a dream. of unemployment we are reducing one might say weimar republic kind of unemployment levels there is poverty. there or there is more austerity coming but when it comes to reporting on government business one senior member of the greek union of journalists told me that it's getting close to cooperate all quit american members of the constrictions have been closed to any voice of the opposition and the media restricting journalists some two thousand five hundred media professionals technicians included have lost their job since last year. and those who attempt to stand up to authority and expose corruption are handcuffed.

guy to be arrested because he revealed the names obviously you can understand that people can cooperate with the state vaxevanis told me he won't keep silent i asked him if he was given another list of names but what would you do this is my job this is what journalists do they don't cover scandals yet they tell the truth and the elites have tried for two whole years to come for me to evidence that renders them in the system entirely unreliable. the arrest of a journalist while trying to reveal wrongdoing has left some greeks failing that democratic rights a road here in the very birthplace of democracy teacher all of us are see. what jim dobson from free press magazine believes the greek government would go to any lengths to stop information from becoming public. these are journalists are doing is trying to reveal to the public the very most important information

relating to the economic crisis i mean cost us most of viruses exposure relate to the real crisis in greece and in other countries to tax avoidance and the export of capital the taking of money out of the country which is one time to the greek economy the government is in absolute crisis in greece the economy is tottering as most terrible social deprivation it's a terrible time for greek people and they're being very badly treated not just by a degree of by the whole european financial establishment they need to know the truth the avoidance of tax. and the taking of money out of the country is one of the main causes of crime she is absolutely right that it should be publicised to the euros only showing very little mercy to the greek people are the people suffering here it's not going to. be allowed to greece is not going to focus on the people or to the to the income or the livelihood of the people it's going to be very. rather rashly lent greece body in the past. now a little later in the program the u.k.'s prime minister is being increasingly poor

so bad farewell to the european union trapped between the blog and a hostile west minister he may have to decide whether his country sponsorship of the club is worth the regular fees. plus while britain is struggling to make cannes mean some are taking it back to basics in order to get things moving that much more just a couple of minutes here in r.t.e. . wealthy british style old stock. market fund. wind. what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to cause

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of the arabic to find out more visit arabic don't r t v dot com. or to our to life or mosque out is a row has filed a complaint to the u.s. after three syrian tanks and or the de-militarized zone between the two states and breaching a decades old cease fire agreement more details from our middle east correspond policy or what we're hearing from these ready defense establishment is that they do believe that the syrian tank newsman is linked to infighting in syria and is not an

act of aggression against the state of israel having said that though the i.d.f. has been on the lookout for precisely this kind of development for several months now it has since the syrian infighting approached the israeli border the i.d.f. has filed a complaint with the united nations over the cease fire violation and at the same time it has raised its alert in the north of the concrete what it is now waiting for is for the united nations disengagement force to oversee the withdrawal of these tanks that into this demilitarized zone in the central golan heights at the same time we understand that the tanks were taking part in battles between syrian rebels well ever since the nine hundred sixty seven a six day war the whole issue of the golan heights has remained a bone of contention between israel and syria is one essentially occupied the area back in one thousand nine hundred sixty. and is very reluctant to give it back to syria largely because it allows it to protect its citizens below the golan heights

and also the areas around the sea of galilee having said that though the issue has always been the main stumbling point between any kind of peace talks between israel and syria and has always stood in the way of we need kind of compromise between these two countries now russia has accused the u.s. of encouraging the syrian opposition to carry on fighting against the government instead of urging political dialogue that's after a washington called for a complete shake up of the opposition in syria revealing plans to bring in militants firing on the front line but little analyst marcus padley jobless believes the white house is unlikely to limit itself to just diplomatic support for the rebels. the american state department are probably looking at a more direct approach now to remove interest in society now when i say a direct approach doesn't necessarily mean nato intervention i think we will probably say that in groups of in syria the americans hasn't to feel more

comfortable with. this even possibly american arms intelligence information one can argue that's possibly happening at that moment certainly the russian governments in recent days have alluded to that but i think in in the future it could be more direct or more direct assistance has been given to them so it certainly will turn into a proxy war between phones by america and very possibly some other western governments states ironic because earlier this year the american ambassador to the united nations susan rice actually used the russian and the in particular the russian but as the chinese government of having blood on their hands well i think she needs to look close in time so that the people that are arm in the syrian militants actually the ones that have blood on their hands both sides in syria must people together to try and compromise to try and bring a peaceful whens what is an absolutely diabolical situation. meanwhile the syrian

rebels have been accused of a potential war crime after a video emerged online that the u.n. says could be used as evidence of brutal brutal supposedly shows opposition fighters beating and executing pro-us of soldiers as they are laying on the ground and there is more on their investigation into the incident on r.t.o. . hundreds of peaceful protesters in bahrain have come under attack from riot police firing tear gas they are rally was against the recent ban imposed on public gatherings seen as part of the government's crackdown on reform campaigns a prominent activist been jailed for six months two for posting

a tweet said to insult the king political analyst rerum charlie a believes that unlike other arab countries human rights abuses in bahrain continue to be largely unnoticed in the western world. result dual martial law tactics that have been practiced before it's an attempt to completely squelch or squash people's uprising in fact we call the unfinished segment of the arab spring which has never been allowed to even throw. in there's been a conservative powers in the region as well as the prove mr church and the and the western way to him this will try to completely demolish the voice of the people whom you believe you know him put in the us and bold human rights abuses in madrid so here you have a clear mismatch between america's our ideals of disposing universal human rights and the reality on the ground here human rights are selectively being enforced and

are we use to dr regina political and on t.v. movies what you have is a regional center which is not allowing free expression then why is for example city of such a hot spot and body mock this is the human sin of the whole arab spring narrative and we have not been able to overcome these double standards just because what reinforce the fifth fleet of the us navy does not entitle it to be so brutal and repressive and get ugly with crimes against humanity which are happening at another hot spot for violence and one of the first arab spring countries yemen struggling to recover after the revolution on our web site r.t. dot com we've got a photo report from the streets of the yemeni capital still in ruins after more than a year of turmoil. now people living in east london have said are resoundingly no thanks to plans to build europe's largest mosque in their backyard right next to the side of the summer's olympics as i found out along with the sheer size of the

project locals are uncomfortable with the islamic group which is developing the site. four times bigger than some paul's cathedral a mega mosque that will fit ten thousand people and it could be coming to london's east end if it gets the go ahead is built the river in center will be the same size as london's looming but as the power station it would also be the biggest place of worship in the u.k. of any religion but critics have slammed the proposal saying that it would create a muslim dancer in the course of half or so working to bring the largest mosque the u.k. has ever seen into reality revered architects planning consultants and glitzy p.r. teams all paid for by the organization behind the idea to be mapped a group that's causing significant concern this is a return beat him out of all the islamic groups has created ghettos over in toronto

you know and kind of right there around the world is a huge group and wherever they go they create barriers they create hostility they create division they create separatism with its unassuming name the riverine centers website claims there's a demand for a new muslim place of worship in culturally diverse east london not that they're happy to talk about it it's representatives refused to speak to us when we approached the prepares site home to their current mosque it does not want to integrate the grounds on which search trying to set up here in britain in a big way are anti british they are anti western but actually they're also anti worldly. other worldly but this is not just going to be a mosque this is going to be a center of training in which to reach out to islam is muslims to harden up and mediæval lies the islam of ordinary muslims in this country and i

mean so many muslims don't want that the problem here is that. muslims themselves are opposing this mosque more on the grounds that they don't want to worship their god but on the grounds that women aren't allowed the local population of muslim population has no on the site and how the mosque itself is governed or the local authority would say to us as you can confer you have received a planning application as this is currently being protested it would be inappropriate to comment here at this stage in many ways if this went ahead if you like a tipping point and. that be no stopping fundamentalist islam if this one goes up well if that happens we all need to leave the country for the last one out please turn the lights off while the council ponders campaign as head of the religions they hope the decision makers choose carefully just today let's set up shop in the british capital. r t east london. and more our

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it watching r t walk back now this week spain and italy dismissed claims there will be seeking aid any time soon as a prime ministers of the two states met in madrid they are at pains to stress requesting a bailout is not of the interest of their people have been vocal in their anger over punishing budget cuts but investment adviser patrick young says it's a pledge they might not be able to keep we've got the italian and spanish leaders who obviously don't read their own newspapers i mean just to give an example last week the spanish said they would launch an eighteen billion euro from to be like the regions by today can top three of the ninth region have claimed their little

share of the pile and they've already therefore got commitments for seventeen point six billion i'm up to nine regions of space and there are lots of other regions that are bankrupt to go certainly should be in desperately need to be enlarged italy will be lucky to escape with one mr rudd hollywood good on history is the man who ultimately signed your route through i don't believe a bald headed obstinacy when he simply refused to appreciate the fact that he'd let his country slip backwards i don't believe the spanish economy at the moment is going towards where it was about nine hundred seventy two when franco was still alive and well. u.k. seems to be an other hand ache for the e.u. it's calling on britain to make a decision on its membership of the block as its leaders begin to losing patience over the u.k.'s budget squabble david cameron is facing huge opposition in parliament on how much the country should pay for being part of a club well earlier this week and number of conservatives have a pain.